READINGS IN MODERN A collection of extracts from the sources chosen with the PREFACE This volume agrees precisely with the previous one in digressions and obscure allusions which could hardly fail to increase the difficulties in the student's path. We have, however, always plainly indicated in the margin those cases in which a speech, treaty, constitution, or extract from a book or article is "condensed or "much condensed." While we have struck out sentences and paragraphs where there was not space for them, and they could be spared, we have only in the rarest instances ventured to change a word, excepting always in the case of translations, which commonly solicit amelioration either from the standpoint of sense or taste. The crit- ical student who suspects that he is missing something can always, by means of our Table of Contents and |